Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth A..., Eleanor Clift
Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth A..., Eleanor Clift
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Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment

Author: Eleanor Clift

Narrator: Ann Richardson

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/14/2020


Synopsis

After seventy-two arduous years, the fate of the suffrage movement and its masterwork, the Nineteenth Amendment, rested not only on one state, Tennessee, but on the shoulders of a single man: twenty-four-year-old legislator Harry Burn. Burn had previously voted with the anti-suffrage forces. If he did so again, the vote would be tied and the amendment would fall one state short of the thirty-six necessary for ratification. At the last minute, though, Harry Burn’s mother convinced him to vote in favor of the suffragist, and American history was forever changed. In this riveting account, political analyst Eleanor Clift chronicles the many thrilling twists and turns of the suffrage struggle and shows how the issues and arguments that surrounded the movement still reverberate today. Beginning with the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention of 1848, Clift introduces the movement’s leaders, recounts the marches and demonstrations, and profiles the opposition—antisuffragists, both men and women, who would do anything to stop women from getting the vote.

About Eleanor Clift

Eleanor Clift is an American political reporter, television pundit, and author. She is currently a contributor to MSNBC and blogger for The Daily Beast. She is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show The McLaughlin Group, which she has compared to "a televised food fight."

About Ann Richardson

Ann Richardson was raised in the Midwest, where she was active in drama and singing. Her varied work experience has lent itself well to narration, as she's no stranger to the terminology used in wildlife management, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, education, and the automotive industry. A devoted volunteer for Learning Ally (formerly Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic), she has narrated numerous audiobooks in a wide variety of genres.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christine on November 30, 2007

not very well written, but very interesting info. full of cattiness and civil disobedience. meow!......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on November 18, 2020

Think you know all there is to know about the passage of the 19th amendment? Think again. These women, many of them society of them society women, were in it for the long haul because this took nearly 100 years to get women in America the vote. And for the most part, they struggled against other wom......more

Goodreads review by Jan on September 03, 2018

Great book. All young girls should read this to appreciate what the suffragettes went through to give women the right to vote and the time and fight that it took to achieve. As Susan B Anthony said “”No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.” Think......more

Goodreads review by Rae on April 11, 2016

Tennessee was the deciding factor. Something they do not talk about. Their shining moment hidden under all the civil war carp. They need to talk about the best decision they made. The 19th amendment is so important. Great book about a great subject. Worthy read. I am thankful to the women who bled a......more